📺 My YouTube Channel Scraper — Channel Intelligence Actor

Extract complete YouTube channel intelligence in a clean, structured, and automation-ready format.

This actor turns any public YouTube channel into actionable data — including subscribers, views, verification status, country, business availability, social links, and more.

Built for marketers, agencies, researchers, SaaS builders, and data teams who need scalable YouTube insights without manual work.

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🚀 What This Actor Extracts

✅ Channel name ✅ Subscriber count ✅ Total views ✅ Total videos ✅ Verification badge ✅ Business email availability ✅ Country & join date ✅ Full channel description ✅ Profile & cover images ✅ All social & external links ✅ Clean snake_case JSON output ✅ Works with:

• @username URLs
• /channel/ID URLs

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🎯 Main Use Cases

📈 Marketing & Growth

• Influencer discovery
• Competitor tracking
• Audience benchmarking

🏢 Agencies & SaaS Platforms

• Automated channel audits
• Lead generation
• CRM & dashboard integrations

📊 Research & Data Analysis

• Niche market analysis
• Channel growth studies
• Country-based insights

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⚙️ Input Format

{
  "start_urls": [
    { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@ChannelName" },
    { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/CHANNEL_ID" }
  ]
}

Input Rules

Field	Type	Required	Description
start_urls	Array	✅ Yes	List of YouTube channel URLs

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📦 Output Data Example (Snake Case)

{
  "channel_id": "UCTgwcoeGGKmZ3zzCXN2qo_A",
  "profile_image": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/...",
  "cover_image": "https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/...",
  "channel_name": "Apify",
  "is_verified": false,
  "has_business_email": true,
  "youtube_handle": "http://www.youtube.com/@Apify",
  "full_channel_url": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTgwcoeGGKmZ3zzCXN2qo_A",
  "about": "Welcome to the official channel...",
  "joined_date": "Jan 4, 2017",
  "country_name": "Czechia",
  "social_links": [
    { "title": "GitHub", "link": "github.com/apify" }
  ],
  "total_views": 879225,
  "total_videos": 191,
  "total_subscribers": 11000
}

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🧠 Extracted Field Reference

Field	Description
channel_id	Unique YouTube channel ID
profile_image	Channel avatar
cover_image	Channel banner
channel_name	Channel name
is_verified	Verification status
has_business_email	Business email availability
youtube_handle	Public username URL
full_channel_url	Full channel URL
about	Channel description
joined_date	Join date
country_name	Country
social_links	All external links
total_views	Total channel views
total_videos	Number of videos
total_subscribers	Subscriber count

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☁️ How It Works

1. You provide one or more YouTube channel URLs

2. The actor scans all public channel data

3. Clean, structured data is saved automatically into the dataset

4. Data is immediately available for:

   • Download
   • API access
   • Analytics
   • Automation workflows

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⚠️ Known Limitations

• Some channels hide business email or country
• Subscriber numbers may appear rounded
• Social links depend on channel owner visibility settings

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✅ Legal & Ethical Compliance

• Uses public YouTube data only
• No login required
• No private user data collected
• Fully compliant with standard data usage policies

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⭐ Ideal For

✅ Lead generation ✅ Influencer research ✅ SaaS data pipelines ✅ Market intelligence ✅ AI training datasets ✅ Competitor analysis